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Date: 1999-03-14
Win98 "Feature": Microsoft hat nicht inhaliert-.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- updating 99.3.7/1 Win98 "Feature": Microsoft hat nicht inhaliert Der registry wizard von Win98 generiert zwar - wie berichtet - eine ID-Nummer, die bei jedem Kontakt mit Microsoft.com abgefragt wird, aber Micro/soft hat damit rein garnix angefangen, ach wo, sondern die Daten nichteinmal gespeichert, sondern einfach weggeschmissen, also geraucht, aber nicht inhaliert. -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- Andy Patrizio .... The company was first exposed last week by Richard Smith of Phar Lap Software, who found that the Windows 98 Registration Wizard, or RegWiz, was installing unique identification numbers on the computers. Those IDs were transmitted to Microsoft.com during registration, Smith said. Windows Magazine [eported that not only is information on the user's system sent to Microsoft.com, it's possible for any website to read and change that information without the user ever knowing it. Microsoft officials said that any data sent to the Microsoft server is not recognized as a valid transaction and is thus discarded. .... That said, the company is eliminating the offending code. The company's website was given an overhaul on Thursday, and one of the steps was to stop receipt of hardware IDs from product-registration wizards. .... "I have to say I'm in awe of Microsoft's ability to not know of that function in Windows 98, if it is a bug as they claim," said Dwight Davis, an analyst with Summit Strategies and former editor of Windows Watcher, a newsletter that covered the company. Speculation that Microsoft was gathering this type of information was in circulation even before Windows 98 was released last year .... "If it's true that they didn't realize this was happening, it says terrible things about Microsoft's oversight of their own products," said Davis. .... Full story http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990312S0034 related Win 98 Privacy Issue: Worse Than You Thought http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990312S0008 Microsoft Aims To Fix Win 98 Privacy Issue http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990309S0010 -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- edited by Harkank published on: 1999-03-14 comments to office@quintessenz.at subscribe Newsletter - -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- -.-. --.- 
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